Island Sculptures
Dreamer of Malta - National Archeological Museum, Valetta, Malta, 3, 000 B.C.
The most spectacular monument in Malta is in the enormous, labyrinthine underground sanctuary known as the Hypogeum which may have been the ceremonial center of the island encompassing more than 6, 000 square meters in three levels.
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Nike - Winged Victory of Greek Isle of Samothrace (200 BCE) - Louvre Museum, Paris, France
The marble statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike of Samothrace) was discovered in 1863 on the island of Samothrace by French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau. The statue is now displayed in the Louvre in Paris .
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Large Nike (Winged Victory) : The Louvre Museum, Paris, 190 B.C.
The Nike of Samothrace was found on the island of Samothrace, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, in 1863 by a French expedition. Nike is the goddess who personified triumph and victory in Greek Mythology. She is the daughter of the giant Pallas (warrior) and Styx.
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Aphrodite of Melos, "Venus de Melos - Venus di Milo"- Louvre Museum, Paris, 200BC
Her graceful body symbolizes an ideal of beauty that many long for but none attain. The French named her the Venus of Milo. In 1820 a peasant named Yorgos found her broken body in an underground cavern on the Aegean island of Melos.
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Bust of Aphrodite
Her graceful body symbolizes and ideal of beauty that many long for but none attain. The French named here the Venus of Milo. In 1820, a peasant named Yorgos found her broken body in an underground cavern on the Aegean island of Melos.
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Turriga Mother Goddess : National Archaeological Museum of Cagliary, 3200 - 2800 BC
This mother goddess was found in Senorbi, a Turriga locality in the island of Sardinia, Italy, in the ruins of a neo-lithic village. It's form clearly represents fertility and is very reminecent of the Cycladic art from Greece.
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